The Southern dative presentative meets Mechanical Turk. Wood, J., Horn, L., Zanuttini, R., & Lindemann, L. American Speech, 90(3):291–320, August, 2015.
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This article introduces the southern dative presentative, an understudied construction that varies across speakers of American English. The authors discuss similarities and differences between this construction and the better-studied personal dative construction and compare the Southern dative presentative with similar constructions cross-linguistically. They then present the results of a nationwide acceptability judgment survey administered on Amazon Mechanical Turk. The results show that Southern dative presentatives are alive and well in Southern dialects of American English. In the process, they also illustrate the usefulness of Amazon Mechanical Turk (and similar crowdsourcing platforms) for the study of dialect variation in the domain of syntax.
@article{wood_southern_2015,
	title = {The {Southern} dative presentative meets {Mechanical} {Turk}},
	volume = {90},
	issn = {0003-1283, 1527-2133},
	doi = {10.1215/00031283-3324487},
	abstract = {This article introduces the southern dative presentative, an understudied construction that varies across speakers of American English. The authors discuss similarities and differences between this construction and the better-studied personal dative construction and compare the Southern dative presentative with similar constructions cross-linguistically. They then present the results of a nationwide acceptability judgment survey administered on Amazon Mechanical Turk. The results show that Southern dative presentatives are alive and well in Southern dialects of American English. In the process, they also illustrate the usefulness of Amazon Mechanical Turk (and similar crowdsourcing platforms) for the study of dialect variation in the domain of syntax.},
	language = {en},
	number = {3},
	urldate = {2016-05-06},
	journal = {American Speech},
	author = {Wood, Jim and Horn, Laurence and Zanuttini, Raffaella and Lindemann, Luke},
	month = aug,
	year = {2015},
	keywords = {Amazon Mechanical Turk, Dative presentatives, MTurk, Personal datives, dative constructions, dialect syntax, dialect variation, presentatives},
	pages = {291--320},
}

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